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1092 points meetpateltech | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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notsylver ◴[26 Aug 25 15:15 UTC] No.45027765[source]▶
I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might finally be time.
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Barbing ◴[26 Aug 25 15:42 UTC] No.45028096[source]▶
Hope it works well for you!

In my eyes, one specific example they show (“Prompt: Restore photo”) deeply AI-ifies the woman’s face. Sure it’ll improve over time of course.

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1. notsylver ◴[26 Aug 25 16:23 UTC] No.45028704[source]▶
I tried a dozen or so images. For some it definitely failed (altering details, leaving damage behind, needing a second attempt to get a better result) but on others it did great. With a human in the loop approving the AI version or marking it for manual correction I think it would save a lot of time.

This is the first image I tried:

https://i.imgur.com/MXgthty.jpeg (before)

https://i.imgur.com/Y5lGcnx.png (after)

Sure, I could manually correct that quite easily and would do a better job, but that image is not important to us, it would just be nicer to have it than not.

I'll probably wait for the next version of this model before committing to doing it, but its exciting that we're almost there.

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2. qingcharles ◴[26 Aug 25 16:58 UTC] No.45029255[source]▶
Being pragmatic, the after is a good restoration. There is nothing really lost (except some sharpness that could be put back). The main failing of AI is on faces because our brains are so hardwired to see any changes or weirdness. This is the sort of image that is perfect for AI because the subject's face is already occluded.